tulipomania

Meaning

Noun

  • Enthusiasm for tulips, as in a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.

Origin

Modern English dictionary

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